Question : Report fields that shoud be blank showing results

This is a cut out of one of my reports.  All of the white boxes are "lookup" fields with no value(null).  When I run the report these phantom value shows up.  They are the lowest ID in the table the field refers to.   In the column titled "Model", I attempted to solve this problem by leaving the lowest ID blank.  It is a cheap fix and will not work for every case.  

Any suggestions on how to handle this type of issue?

 
sample report showing phantom values
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Answer : Report fields that shoud be blank showing results

<The article listed all the evils of lookup tables, but did not suggest alternatives for the benefits that the lookup table provides.>
... Yes, this is a source of confusion.
;-)
Lookup Fields should only be on your *Forms* not in the tables.
The exact same Lookup wizard is available in design view of a Form.
;-)

The error you are getting  is a result of you having two left Joins on a table.
If you changed the joins to an Inner joins, (Fields on both tables are the same) it should work.
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